Name                                 Michael O’ Regan, PhD, MBS, GDip. Tourism, BBS

E-mail Address                 michael@michaeloregan.me    Nationality Irish    Tel +44(0)7398 303323   

Website                              michaeloregan.me            

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My educational and career path has always concentrated on tourism, hospitality and events, teaching their varied elements and putting my industry and academic knowledge to work. Throughout my academic and practical experience, I have developed strong skills in retaining command over a diverse range of material, and focusing on elements to implement both corporate, educational and research strategies, providing best practice advice for the tourism, event and hospitality sectors and providing a interactive and informative learning experience for college and university students in the United Kingdom, China and Italy.

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Work Experience & Present Occupation

Senior Lecturer                                               2015-Sept 2020    Bournemouth University, United Kingdom

Assistant Professor                                         2013-2014            Institute for Tourism Studies, Macau SAR

Acting Program Director                                2012-2013            Dongbei University of Finance & Economics, China

Assistant Professor                                         2011-2012            Dongbei University of Finance & Economics, China

Part-Time Lecturer                                         2005-2011            University of Brighton, United Kingdom

Independent Round the World Trip               2003-2004          

Marketing Executive                                      1999-2003            Wicklow County Tourism ltd, Ireland

Marketing Assistant                                       1997-1999            Gulliver InfoRes Services ltd, Ireland

Administrative Experience: As a former acting program director in tourism studies, I have experience in curriculum development, course development and team coordination. I also have experience in making connections with the tourism industry, human resource management, program delivery and mentoring.

Teaching Experience: Since 2005, I have worked as a part time lecturer at the School of Service Management – the University of Brighton (United Kingdom); assistant professor and program director at Dongbei University of Finance & Economics (China) and assistant professor at the Institute for Tourism Studies, Macau. I have been both lecturer and module leader on Tourism and Recreation in Fragile Destinations, Change Management, Niche Tourism Trends and Development, Rural Tourism Development & Management, Contemporary Issues in International Travel and Tourism, Ecotourism, Event Management, Trends and Issues in Tourism, Service Management, Tourism Planning, Sport Event Management, Experiential Marketing, Event Engagement, Event & Experience Marketing, Digital Marketing & Communications, Event Risk Management and Leisure Management.

I have been a visiting lecturer in 2008, 2010 and 2011 at MIB School of Management, an international School of Business and Management located in Trieste (Italy), one of the top international business schools for tourism managerial education in Europe. 

Round the World Trip: I spent fourteen months from February 2003 to April 2004 making a varied and rewarding Round the World Trip which included six months in South America, four months in South East Asia and two months in China. The trip sharpened my wide range of skills from planning, budgeting, dealing with the unexpected, using initiative and negotiation to develop communication and interpersonal skills.

Marketing Executive: I worked as the Marketing Executive for Wicklow County Tourism from October 1999 to February 2003. Wicklow County Tourism is the only designated county tourism committee working in partnership with Wicklow County Council, the Regional Tourism Authority, the Irish Tourist Board and local tourism trade in promoting and developing County Wicklow as a tourism destination at home and overseas. I represented Wicklow County Tourism at various conferences, exhibitions, trade shows as well as at various functions, trade meetings, festival committees and marketing meetings. I also organized various festival launches, tourism workshops and seminars within the county as well as organizing familiarization trips for Travel Writers and Journalists, issuing press releases and attaining publicity.

Marketing Assistant: I was an employee at Gulliver InfoRes Services ltd., Irelands’ information and reservation service, operated by FEXCO, Bord Fáilte and the Northern Ireland Tourism Board between September 1997 and September 1999. I left Gulliver as a Marketing Assistant where I was primarily creating market reports and managing the practical implementation of the company-marketing plan, which included advertising and PR campaigns. My responsibilities included briefing the full board of the company about marketing campaigns, representing the company at home and abroad and internal and external communications for the company.

College education to date

Doctor of Philosophy                                     2005-2010     University of Brighton (United Kingdom)            

Master of Business Studies (Research)          1995-1997     University of Limerick (Ireland)

Graduate Diploma in Tourism Studies           1994-1995     University of Limerick (Ireland)

Bachelor of Business Studies Degree             1990-1994     Munster Technological University (MTU)

– Doctor of Philosophy: While statistics can tell us in quite general terms the scale and spread of global tourist movement against a background of globalisation, my PhD utilises the mobilities paradigm to both re-establish modern tourism’s place as a fundamental element in shaping the imagination as well as shaping spaces and landscapes around the globe. My PhD study, entitled ‘Backpacker Mobilities: The Practice And Performance Of Travellerscapes in a Global World’, supervised by Professor Peter Burns and Dr. Lyn Pemberton, opened up a series of questions about the processes by which distinct forms of tourism emerge, expressing themselves as flows with distinctly mobile patterns of consumption.

– Master of Business Studies (Research): The two-year research study ‘Ireland’s changing image and its convention visitors’ was completed during August 1997 under the supervision of Mr. Greg Knipe. The development and production of a sixty thousand-word report allowed me to develop a wide range of skills in relation to quantitative and qualitative research using statistical and database methods.

– Graduate Diploma in Tourism Studies: I achieved a Bachelor of Business Studies Degree (Marketing) in 1994, which gave me an excellent practical and educational background in business, marketing, statistics, computing, research and inter-personal skills. I then obtained a first class honors award after completing a Post-graduate Diploma in Tourism Studies (1994-1995) at the University of Limerick.             

Skills and Competencies Profile

Personal Skills: I have the ability and experience of working and socialising with university students, corporates, consumers, the academic community, staff, national / international media and politicians.

Technology: I have a strong knowledge of Information Technology, web campaigns and digital media.  I was in charge of my departmental marketing (Facebook, twitter, newsletters etc.) between 2016-2020.

Teamwork: I have been involved in cross-disciplinary academic projects, community led projects.

Analytical: I have completed varied research reports and papers including a two year research masters, a PhD and multiple qualitative and quantitative research projects.

Communication: I have made presentations to target audiences, both corporate and academic as well as at national and international conferences.

Cross-Cultural: I am committed to community outreach programs and sensitivity to cultural diversity.

Achievements

I successfully applied for a two-year General Electric (G.E) Foundation Grant and a Tourism Ireland grant for my masters’ research. I was also a recipient of a three and a half year Faculty PhD Studentship, which was jointly supervised by the Centre for Tourism Policy Studies and the School of Computing and Information Sciences at the University of Brighton. I have also been awarded a Royal Geographical Society – IBG Travel Bursary during my PhD research. I was an invited participant to the Summer School: Mobility and Information Technologies: a long-term perspective (12^th September – 16^th September 2011,) in Pleumeur-Bodou, France. I was an invited participant at the T2M International Summer School, ‘The Passenger: Mobility in Modernity,’ held in Berlin (30^th September- 6^th October 2011). I was also an invited participant to the 7th Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality (19^th June 19 – 21^st 2014) that relooked at rethinking the modern experience of travel. In 2016, I was invited to partake in the Advancing Green Growth in Peru: A spotlight on tourism, transport and the blue economy Workshop (11^th March – 18^th March 2016), a workshop on Sustainable Business Development through Technology and Innovation in Thailand (Bangkok) during March 2018, and a workshop on Sustainable Island Development (Shanghai) during August 2018.

Guest Lectures

O’Regan, M. (2019). Event Tourism: trends and opportunities– the Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas (UPC), Lima, Perú.

O’Regan, M. (2018). For the sixth edition of seminar series Cities & Mobilities focused on mobility and design. I was at the Roeterseiland Campus (University of Amsterdam) on 16 March, 2018 to present “Friction/Frictionless in the City.”

O’Regan, M. (2017). China and overseas events. Dongua University (Shanghai), supported by Santander.

O’Regan, M. (2017). Chiang Mai as a Smart Tourism Destination. Chiang Mai University (Thailand) – Supported by Erasmus Mundus –

O’Regan, M. (2016). Marine Tourism and Outbound Chinese Tourism. Pancasila University (Jakarta, Indonesia) in Thursday, June 2.

Publications

• O’Reagn, M. (Ed)(2021). Backpacker Travel and Tourism. UK: CABI Publishing (draft stage).
• O’Reagn, M. (2021). From its Drifter Past to Nomadic Futures – Future Directions in Backpacking Research and Practice, Tourist Studies, 21(1), 45-56.
• Norfolk, L. & O’Regan, M. (2020). Biometric technologies at music festivals: An extended technology acceptance model, Journal of Convention & Event Tourism, 22(1), 36-60.
• Choe, J., O’Regan, M, & Kimbu, A. N. (2020). Filipino migrant workers’ leisure and subjective quality of life in Macao, World Leisure Journal, 1-19.
• Choe, J., & O’Regan, M. (2020). Faith Manifest: Spiritual and Mindfulness Tourism in Chiang Mai, Thailand, Religions, Religions, 11(4), 177.
• O’Regan, M., & Choe, J. (2019).  Post-Colonial Macau: hope and despair in a World Centre of Tourism and Leisure, Via Tourism, 16(2019)
• O’Regan, M., & Choe, J. (2019). Managing a non-profit hospitality platform conversion: The case of Couchsurfing.com, Tourism Management Perspectives, 30, 138-146.
• O’Regan, M., Choe, J., & Di Giovine, M. (2019). Reframing and Reconceptualising Gambling tourism in Macau as a Chinese Pilgrimage, Tourism Geographies. 21(3), 508-528.
• O’ Regan, M., Choe, J., & Yap, M. H. (2019). Conspicuous consumption at a wine festival in China, Hospitality and Society, 9(2), 125-143.
• O’ Regan, M. (2018). The Hitchhiker as Bricoleur Anthropologist, Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 42 (3), 58-60.
• O’Regan, M. (2018). Backpacking’s Future and its Drifter Past, Journal of Tourism Futures, 4(3), 193-204.
• Choe, J., O’ Regan, M., Qian, X., & Yap, M. H. (2018). Macau Wine Festivalscape: Attendees Satisfaction and Behavioral Intentions, Hospitality and Society, 8(3), 273-296.
• O’Regan, M. (2017). Doing Things Differently: Opening Cracks in the Tourism System, Tvergastein | Interdisciplinary Journal of the Environment, 9, 24-33.
• O’ Regan, M., & Choe, J. (2017). Airbnb and cultural capitalism: enclosure and control within the sharing economy, Anatolia-International Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Research, 28(2), 163-172.
• O’Regan, M. (2017). Airbnb: Turning the Collaborative Economy into a Collaborative Society. In D. Dredge & S. Gyimóthy (Eds.), Tourism and collaborative consumption: Perspectives, politics, policies and prospects, pp.153-168. Frankfurt: Springer.
• O’Regan, M., Choe, J. and Yap, M.H. (2017). Attendee Motivations at an International Wine Festival in China, Event Management: an International Journal, 21(4), 448-460.
• O’ Regan, M. (2016). Niche/Specialty Tourism. In Lowry, L. and Golson, L. L. (Eds.), The SAGE International Encyclopaedia of Travel and Tourism. London: Sage International.
• O’ Regan, M. (2016). A backpacker habitus: the body and dress, embodiment and the self, Annals of Leisure Research, 19(3), 329-346.
• O’ Regan, M. & Choe, J. (2015). Developing student engagement in China through collaborative action research. In Sheldon, P. and Hsu, C. (Eds), Tourism Education: Global Issues and Trends (Tourism Social Science Series, Volume 21), pp. 153-167. UK: Emerald Group Publishing Limited.
• O’ Regan, M. & Chang, H. (2015). Smartphone Adoption Amongst Chinese Youth During Leisure Based Tourism: Challenges and Opportunities, Journal of China Tourism Research, 11(3), 238-254.
• O’ Regan, M. (2015). Methodological Bricolage: A journey on the road less travelled in tourism studies, Tourism Analysis, 20(5), 457–467.
• O’ Regan, M. (2015).Motor coach tourism. In Jafari, J. and Xiao, H. (Eds), Encyclopaedia of Tourism. Frankfurt: Springer. DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-01669-6_1-1.
• O’ Regan, M. & Choe, J. (2015). China’s Tourism’s March Forward: Towards a Green Transition or Unsustainable Tourism. In Reddy, M. V. and Wilkes, K. (Eds), Tourism in the Green Economy, pp. 100-112. UK: Routledge.
• Choe, J. & O’ Regan, M. (2015). Religious tourism Experiences in South East Asia. In Griffith, K. and Raj, R. (Eds), Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage Management: An International Perspective (2^nd edition), pp. 191-204. UK: CABI Publishing.
• Choe, J., Chick, G., & O’ Regan, M. (2015). Meditation as a kind of Leisure: the similarities and differences in the United States, Leisure Studies, 34(4), 420-437.
• O’ Regan, M. (2014). Others Have the Clock but We Have time: Alternative Lifestyle Mobilities and the Resurgence of Hitchhiking. In Duncan, T., Cohen, S. and Thulemark, M. (Eds), Lifestyle Mobilities: Intersections of Travel Leisure and Migration, pp. 35-50. UK: Ashgate.
• O’ Regan, M. (2014). Fragmenting Tourism: Niche tourists. In McCabe, S. (Ed). The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Marketing, pp. 268-280. UK: Routledge.
• O’ Regan, M. (2013). Independent Travel: Creative tactics in the margins, eReview of Tourism Research (eRTR), 10(5/6).
• O’ Regan, M. (2013). Couchsurfing through the lens of Agential Realism: Intra-Active Constructions of Identity and Challenging the Subject-Object Dualism. In Moufakkir, O. and Reisinger, Y. (Eds), The Host Gaze, pp.161-178. UK: CABI Publishing.
• O’ Regan, M. (2012). Alternative Mobility Cultures and the Resurgence of Hitch-hiking. In Fullagar, S., Markwell, K. and Wilson, E. (Eds), Slow Mobilities: Experiencing Slow Travel and Tourism, pp. 128-142. UK: CABI Publishing.
• O’ Regan, M. (2011). On the Edge of Chaos: European Aviation and Disrupted Mobilities, Mobilities, 6(1), 21-30.
• O’ Regan, M. (2010). Backpacker Hostels: Place and Performance. In Hannan, K. and Kiekmann, A. (Eds), Beyond Backpacker Tourism, pp. 85-101. Clevedon: Multilingual Matters.
• O’ Regan, M. (2009). New Technologies of the Self and Social Networking Sites: Hospitality Exchange Clubs and the Changing Nature of Tourism and Identity. In Abbas, Y. and Dervin, F. (Eds), Digital Technologies of the Self, pp. 171-198. Newcastle, UK: Cambridge Scholars Publishing.
• O’ Regan, M. (2008). Hypermobility in Backpacker Lifestyles: the Emergence of the Internet Café. In Burns, P.M and Novelli, M. (Eds), Tourism and Mobilities: Local-Global Connections, pp. 109-132. Wallingford, UK: CABI Publishing.
• Burns, P. & O’ Regan, M. (2008). Everyday Techno-social Devices in Everyday Travel Life: Digital Audio Devices in Solo Travelling Lifestyles. In Burns, P.M and Novelli, M. (Eds), Tourism and Mobilities: Local-Global Connections, pp. 146-186. Wallingford, UK: CABI Publishing.

Article Repositories

Research Gate, Academia.edu and Google Scholar.

Service and Conference Activities

Journal Reviewer: Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, Mobility in History, Tourism and Hospitality Research, Qualitative Research, Anatolia, Computers, Tourism Review, Tourist Studies, Tourism Review, Environment and Urban Systems, Annals of Tourism Research  and Mobilities. Details on my reviewer record can be found on publons.

Recent Book Reviews:

Journal of Sport & Tourism (2018) –  Critical event studies: approaches to research.

Anatolia (2016) – Tourism research in China: themes and issues.

Tourism Geographies (2015) – A cosmopolitan journey? Difference, distinction and identity work in gap year travel.

Tourist Studies (2015) – Tourism and the Power of Otherness: Seductions of Difference.

Tourism Management (2013) – Liminal Landscapes Travel, Experience and Spaces in-between.

Conference Organizing Committee Member:

ICOT (2014) – Dalian, China.

Scientific Committee Member:

International Congress of Tourism and Hospitality (2014) – Puyo, Ecuador.

Nexus of Migration and Tourism: Creating Social Sustainability Symposium (2018) – Hanoi, Vietnam.

Conference Presentations:

Mobilities and Tourism Conference (Brighton, United Kingdom, 2005), ATLAS Backpacker conference (Shimla, India, 2008), ATLAS Independent Travel and Hospitality: An expert conference (Beirut, Lebanon, 2013), TTRA Annual Conference (Dublin, Ireland, 2013), TTRA Annual Conference (Bruges, Belgium, 2014), ALTAS – Religious Tourism (Budapest, Hungary, 2014), International Conference on Gaming, Leisure and Entertainment (Macao, 2014), Consumer Behavior in Tourism Symposium (Bolzano, Italy, 2014), Vernacular Religion, Folk Belief, and Traditions of the Supernatural 2015 / The Supernatural in Literature and Film 2015 (Macao, 2015), TTRA Annual Conference (Innsbruck, Austria, 2015), RGS-IBG Annual International Conference (Exeter 2015), Association of American Geographers (Chicago, 2015), RGS-IBG Annual International Conference (London 2017), T2m-Cemore Mobilities Conference (Lancaster, 2017), Association of American Geographers (Washington, 2019), IUAES (Poznan, 2019).

Media Articles:

–           The T2M Newsletter (2012) – A View from the Street: Growth of mobility in Dalian, China.

–           Discover Society (2014) – The Tyrannies Of Collaborative Consumption.

–           Macau Business (2015) Magazine – Uncorking the Middle Class.

– Pengelolaan Pariwisata Bahari Butuh Keseriusan (2016) – Maritime Tourism Management Needs Seriousness.

–           The Conversation (2017) – Tourist codes of conduct are a bad idea – here’s why.

–           Gentleman’s Journal (2018) –

–           The Mirror Newspaper (2018) – Tourists on drunken rampage in Marbella.

–           South China Morning Post (2018) – Dear God, please send the Philippines some tourists.

–           The Conversation (2019) – .

–           The Conversation (2019) – .

–           CNN (2019) – Travelers behaving badly: Is the conduct of tourists getting worse?

–           SKIFT (2020) – 

–           Reuters (2020) – Purpose over profit: are B-Corps the future of sustainable business?

–           The Times (UK) (2020) –

– Bloomberg / Citylab (2020) – Can Airbnb Survive Coronavirus?

– Hope 100 (2020) –  The movement towards better business.

–           The Conversation (2020) –

– The Times (UK) (2021) – Should your business become a B Corp?

– CNN (2021) – The trouble with maskless tourists.

Membership of Professional Bodies:

Royal Geographical Society (with IBG), Leisure Studies Association (LSA).

Editorial Board:

Journal of Business Research (Former 2015-2017).

Tourist Studies (2020 – Present)

Grants – Santander Mobility Grant £5000 (2017), ESRC Festival of Social Science £1000 (2017), Erasmus Mundus £5000 (2017), British Council £4300 (2018).

Other Esteem measures –  Research Photo Competition (2016), Education for Sustainable Development Community of Practice Award (2018).

References

Details of referees, photocopies of certificates, transcripts and other relevant documents available on request.